Oates, Tan, and Welty: Rewriting the Female Psyche
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Oates, Tan, and Welty highlight the extraordinary way their female characters reveal the human psyche by discrediting the age-old distinction between sanity and madness, or reason and unconsciousness. Oates presents a discourse of madness by highlighting female characters whom the system considers irrational and who can easily be categorized as neurotic or psychotic objects. To highlight a post-structuralist zone that defies any clear distinction between sanity and madness, Oates' characters cross the boundary between fantasy and reality, serving to bring out the underlying interdependence between passion and madness. Tan also interprets madness (more specifically, delusional psychosis) as the splits of the unconscious, highlighting a deconstructive state called the Yin, where there is no clear distintion between the real and the unreal. Kwan detotalizes the empire of pathology, discrediting the myth of a transcendental ego and exploring the magic realist approaches to madness. Kwan's Yin secrets include what contemporary theorists would consider a post-structuralist aspect of the human psyche. Welty describes a character with the symptoms of anxiety disorder, who suffers from a splitting of personality and a type of mental aberration. In a clinical term Livvie may be a victim of neurosis resulting from the pathological violence of her husband. The violence occurs when an empowered group imposes its aesthetic values upon those of a subordinate group. We can clearly see the master-slave relationship between Solomon and Livvie. These female writers rewrite the theories of insanity by blurring the boundary between reason and unconsciousness to reveal that sanity and madness are no longer opposed.
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Oates, Tan, and Welty highlight the extraordinary way their female characters reveal the human psyche by discrediting the age-old distinction between sanity and madness, or reason and unconsciousness. Oates presents a discourse of madness by highlighting female characters whom the system considers irrational and who can easily be categorized as neurotic or psychotic objects. To highlight a post-structuralist zone that defies any clear distinction between sanity and madness, Oates' characters cross the boundary between fantasy and reality, serving to bring out the underlying interdependence between passion and madness. Tan also interprets madness (more specifically, delusional psychosis) as the splits of the unconscious, highlighting a deconstructive state called the Yin, where there is no clear distintion between the real and the unreal. Kwan detotalizes the empire of pathology, discrediting the myth of a transcendental ego and exploring the magic realist approaches to madness. Kwan's Yin secrets include what contemporary theorists would consider a post-structuralist aspect of the human psyche. Welty describes a character with the symptoms of anxiety disorder, who suffers from a splitting of personality and a type of mental aberration. In a clinical term Livvie may be a victim of neurosis resulting from the pathological violence of her husband. The violence occurs when an empowered group imposes its aesthetic values upon those of a subordinate group. We can clearly see the master-slave relationship between Solomon and Livvie. These female writers rewrite the theories of insanity by blurring the boundary between reason and unconsciousness to reveal that sanity and madness are no longer opposed.
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